SF News Candace Chen Makes An Honest Man Out Of David Chiu Well, how about that. D3 Supervisor David Chiu finally—finally!—tied the proverbial knot on Saturday and married his special friend Candace Chen. Delightful. The two got hitched at a private ceremony at
SF News Van Ness To Get Speedy New Bus Line (Eventually) After what seems like years of talking and even more spent waiting for the 47-Van Ness, the San Francisco County Transit Authority and the Board of Supervisors finally cleared the way for Bus
SF News Sup. Katy Tang Not a Fan of Naughty Massage Parlors Supervisor Katy Tang, who succeeded Carmen Chu to head up District 4 in February by mayoral appointment, proposed some tougher legislation today to crack down on brothels/handjob parlors fronting as massage parlors
SF News Supervisor Wants City Parks To Have Regular Closing Hours During today's Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Scott Wiener will propose setting regular hours for the city's 220 parks from 5 a.m. to midnight. According to the SFGate, "He says that every
SF News What We Talk About When We Talk About Formula Retail Formula retail. You know: chains. They're a hot topic in S.F. right now, especially in The Mission where a beloved used bookstore is becoming a Jack Spade, and in the Castro where
SF News Victory For TIC Owners As Board Of Supervisors Votes to Clear Lottery Backlog A whole bunch of condo conversions are set to occur in the next couple of years as the Board of Supervisors voted last night to approve legislation to clear a backlog of over
Arts & Entertainment London Breed Is The Amanda Bynes Of S.F. Supervisors [Update] We have a new favorite crazy cannon on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. And her name is London Breed. For whatever reason, Ms. Breed will only respond to a constituent with respect
SF News Condo Conversion Legislation Gets Amended With Ten-Year Moratorium As discussed back in February, Supervisors Mark Farrell and Scott Wiener have co-authored some legislation that will clear a 2,000-unit backlog of tenancies in common (TICs) and allow them to convert to
SF News Supe Laughs At Homeless Man's Cell Phone Use On Thursday, the state Public Utilities Commission expanded Lifeline, a landline phone service that donates free landlines to the poor, with cell phones. This is a good thing for many reasons -- e.
SF News The Apotheosis Of Scott Wiener Continues With 'SF Weekly' Cover Piece, 'SF Mag' Profile Did Supervisor Scott Wiener recently hire a publicist? San Francisco media is rather infatuated with him all of a sudden. He's been the butt of many a wiener joke with regard to the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Rad S.F. Bars Deemed Historic Speaking of bars, two local bars noted for catering to two (dwindling?) minority groups were declared a historic landmarks by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. Sam Jordan's in Bayview and Twin Peaks
SF News Chiu Re-Elected to Third Term as President of the Board of Supes At yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting, David Chiu was once again chosen as President of the Board, for his third consecutive term. Speculation about a possible changing of the guard in the President's
SF News Nudity Ban Approved, for Real, By Same Six Supervisors; One Protester Arrested The Board of Supervisors once again got an eyeful of ass, breasts, balls, and bush today in the Board chambers, and they once again voted to approve the citywide ban on nudity, which
SF News Final Vote Today For San Francisco's Nudity Ban Supporters of San Francisco's right to get naked in public could show up at City Hall today when the Board of Supervisors give their final vote on the city's controversial nudity ban. On
SF News More Wiener Drama: Blogger Arrested for Taking Photo Of Supervisor? It may be difficult to see the drama in this if one is not ensconced deeply in the politics of the Castro, but bear with us. Local blogger and activist Michael Petrelis claims
SF News Scott Wiener Seeking to Make Environmental Review Process Easier For Developers On the Planning Commission agenda this week is the continuation of a somewhat controversial item introduced by Supervisor Scott Wiener earlier this month that would limit the citizenry's ability to hold up development
SF News Nudists Hire a Lawyer Our city's gaggle of fervent nudists has lawyered up, ladies and gentlemen. This is about to get fun. Today we get word via Mitch Hightower, nudist ringleader, that he and his birthday-suited cohort
SF News Norman Yee Barely Leads In Historically Close D7 Race A week after election day, the race for the next Supervisor in the Parkside-to-Lakeside District 7 is down to a 33 vote lead for school board president and photoshopper of questionable taste Norman
SF News Will London Breed Be the New Chris Daly? We don't know a lot about London Breed beyond the fact that she was a Fire Commissioner, she runs the African American Art and Culture Complex, and she was allegedly pissed at Ed
SF News More D5 Drama: Eliana Lopez Weighs In On 'Olague Bullies' In case you haven't heard, about 900 people are running for Supervisor in District 5, the district recently supervised by Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, and temporarily covered the past eleven months by Christine Olague.
SF News D5 Candidate Julian Davis Gets Another Accusation Leveled Against Him [Updated] It seems a couple of women who've come in contact with District 5 supervisor candidate Julian Davis don't much care for his style of alleged sexual advances. Following on the claims made by
SF News He's The Sheriff: Ross Mirkarimi To Keep Job Despite a domestic-abuse conviction, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi gets to keep his job after the board of Supervisors refused allow Mayor Ed Lee to use official misconduct charges to get the embattled elected sheriff
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Might Lose His Job Today, Or Not The fate of suspended sheriff Ross Mirkarimi will likely be finalized today after the Board of Supervisors meets to discuss the Ethics Commission recommendation that he be permanently removed from office. As discussed
SF News Supervisors to Consider Allowing Even Tinier Micro-Apartments At tomorrow's Board of Supervisors meeting there's a proposal on the docket to change the city's building code to allow for the tiniest dwelling spaces in the country. The new micro-condos/mini-apartments would
SF News Supervisors Consider Ban on Overnight RV Parking You know that RV across the street that never seems to go anywhere and out of which occasionally stumbles a disheveled person? Well, Supervisor Carmen Chu wants to do something about that nonsense.
